The world as I see it
I learned a lot about elephants while I was in Africa and came away loving them even more. To see the bond between a mother elephant and her calf is amazing. There was a very interesting article in the Washington Post about the elephants in Amboseli. Rather than repeat everything in this post, you can …
At the end of our second day in Amboseli, we watched a herd of elephants in the marsh as the sun started to set. As the sun went down, they started leaving the marsh to head back "home."
You may look at these photos and think (as I did initially) that it is two elephants mating. But it's not. Â Our guide at Wild-Eye explained that it is actually a dominance display from one bull elephant to another. He said that males will usually practice this behavior especially when swimming in large bodies of …
I don't know if these wildebeest were fighting or if they were just playing, but they were tussling for a while in the dirt.
The Cape buffalo is one of the African "big five" animals (the others are lion, leopard, elephant and rhinoceros),. They were identified this way by big-game hunters, and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot. Now it is widely used by safari tour operators. I found an interesting article about …
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